Baghdad Without a Map: And Other Misadventures in Arabia [Idioma Inglés] - Softcover

Horwitz, Tony

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0452267455 ISBN 13: 9780452267459

Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group, 1992

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"A very funny and frequently insightful look at the world's most combustible region."--The New York Times Book ReviewNATIONAL BESTSELLER With razor-sharp wit and insight, intrepid journalist Tony Horwitz gets beyond solemn newspaper headlines and romantic myths of Arabia to offer startling close-ups of a volatile region few Westerners understand. His quest for hot stories takes him from the tribal wilds of Yemen to the shell-pocked shores of Lebanon; from the malarial sands of the Sudan to the eerie souks of Saddam Hussein's Iraq, a land so secretive that even street maps and weather reports are banned. As an oasis in the Empty Quarter, a veiled woman offers tea and a mysterious declaration of love. In Cairo, "politeness police" patrol seedy nightclubs to ensure that belly dancers don't show any belly. And at the Ayatollah's funeral in Tehran a mourner chants, "Death to America," then confesses to the author his secret dream--to visit Disneyland. Careening through thirteen Muslim countries and Israel, Horwitz travels light, packing a keen eye, a wicked sense of humor, and chutzpah in almost suicidal measure. This wild and comic tale of Middle East misadventure reveals a fascinating world in which the ancient and the modern collide. "As a document of the cultural impasse that brought on the war, this is unsurpassed."--Village Voice "High-spirited and entertaining."--The New Yorker "A timely and incisive insider's description of the mysterious Arab World . . . Tony Horwitz is an ideal guide for American Reader."--Chicago Tribune. NOTA: El libro no está en español, sino en inglés.

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Tony Horwitz was a native of Washington, D.C., and a graduate of Brown University and Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. As a foreign correspondent, he covered wars and conflict in the Middle East, Africa, and Eastern Europe, mainly for the Wall Street Journal. Returning to the U.S., he won a Pulitzer Prize for national reporting and wrote for the New Yorker. He was a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and president of the Society of American Historians. His books include the national bestsellers Confederates in the Attic, Blue Latitudes, Baghdad Without a Map and A Voyage Long and Strange.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1992
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0452267455
• ISBN 13: 9780452267459
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 304
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